Grand Duchess Tatiana

Great-granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II (1818 - 1881), Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) (1824 - 1880), Prince Albert (1819-1861) and Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

Granddaughter of Czar Aleksandr III (1845 - 1894), the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorova (1847-1928), Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837-1892) and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843 - 1878).

Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II (1868 - 1918) and Tsarina Alexandra (1872 - 1918).

Niece of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869-1870), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871-1899), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875-1960), Grand Duke Michael (1878 - 1918), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882-1960), Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863-1950 ), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864-1918), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866-1953), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868-1937), Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (1870-1873) and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874-1878).

Younger Sister of Grand Duchess Olga (1895 - 1918) and older sister of Grand Duchess Marie (1899 - 1918), Grand Duchess Anastasia (1901 - 1918 )and Tsarevitch Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov (1904- 1918).

Her Imperial Highness, The Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicholaievna Romanov was born on June 10, 1897. She is the second child of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra. She has one elder sister, Olga, two younger sisters - Maria and Anastasia and a younger brother Alexei. Out of all of Tatiana's siblings, she was her mother's favorite companion. She was tall and a lot like her mother and the classical beauty of the family with auburn hair and grey eyes. Tatiana was extremely close to her older sister Olga, who was only 18 months apart. Tatiana and Olga shared a bedroom and were called "The Big Pair", while Olga's other two younger sisters - Maria and Anastasia - whee called "The Little Pair. " She was also the leader of her brother and sisters, and they called her "Governess. " Tatiana was the one who usually took charge of everything, which didn't bother the oldest, Olga. When World War I started Tatiana her sister Olga and her Mother the Empress Alexandra became War nurses. After she caught the measles, along with her siblings, Tatiana lost a lot of weight and her personality changed after she and her family were held under guard. When her father abdicated, for himself and for Alexei, Tatiana and her family where prisoners of the Revolution, in Tobolsk. After that, Tatiana's father, mother and sister Maria went to Ekaterinburg, leaving Tatiana with her sisters Olga and Anastasia and her younger brother Alexei. Tatiana and her sisters took care of Alexei because he got very hurt before her father, mother and sister left. After Alexei was well enough to be moved, Olga, Tatiana, Anastasia, Alexei and some of their employees went to Ekaterinburg, to be with their parents and Maria. In Ekaterinburg the Romanovs lived in a place called "The House of Special Purpose. " Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia all shared a room, while her father, mother, and Alexei shared.

Her pets were: Ortino (Dog - French Bulldog) [1914-1915), Billie (Dog - French Bulldog) [1914-?], Robino (horse) (?-?), Ortino 2 (Dog - French Bulldog) (?-1918) and Jimmy (King Charles Spaniel) (?-1918).

Second cousin of Irina Yusupova (1915 -1983), Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia ( 1919 - 2000), Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia 1920 - 2008), Prince Andrew Romanov (b. 1923), Princess Olga Romanoff (b. 1950), Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia (1924 - 2008), Princess Irene Feodorovna ( (b. 1934), Prince Nikita Romanov (1923 - 2007), Prince Alexander Romanov ( (1929 - 2002), Princess Nadejda Dmitrievna (1933 - 2002), Prince Rostislav Romanov (1938-1999), Prince Nicholas Rostislavovich ((1945 - 2000), Princess Marina Vasilievna (b. 1940), Olga Kulikovsky (b. 1964), Xenia Kulikovsky (b. 1941), Leonid Kulikovsky (1943-2015), Alexander Kulikovsky (b. 1948), Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905 - 1981), Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906-1969), Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (1911 - 1937), Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914 - 2001), Prince Philip (b. 1921), stillborn (1925-1925), Lady Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten (1917 - 1988), David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919 - 1970), Patricia Mountbatten (1924 - 2017), Lady Pamela Hicks (b. 1929), Princess Barbara of Prussia (1920 - 1994) and Prince Alfred Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Conrad of Prussia (1924 - 2013).

Third cousin of Countess Xenia Nikolaevna Sheremeteva (b. 1942), Prince Alexis Andreevich Romanov (b. 1953), Prince Peter Andreevich Romanov (b. 1961), Prince Andrew Andreevich Romanov (b. 1963), Nicholas Mathew (b. 1976), Francis Mathew (b. 1979), Alexandra Mathew (b. 1981), Thomas Mathew (1987 - 1989), Prince Michael Mihailovich (1959 - 2001), Joelle Soulas (b. 1966), Alain Pelle (b. 1956), Prince Fedor Nikitich Romanoff (1974-2007), Théodore Nikitich de Russie (1974-2007,), Penelope Allen (b. 1953), Marina Allen (b. 1955), Alexandra Allen (b. 1958 ), Princess Stephena Rostislavovna Romanov (b. 1963), Princess Alexandra Rostislavovna Romanov (b. 1983), Prince Rostislav Romanov (b. 1985), Prince Nikita Rostislavovich Romanov (b. 1987), Nicolas Romanov (b. 1968), Daniel Romanov (b. 1972), Heather Romanov (b. 1976), Tatiana Beadleston (b. 1968) Alexandra Beadleston (b. 1970) Nicholas Beadleston (b. 1971) Natalie Beadleston (b. 1976), Peter Cordeiro (b. 1994), Paul Kulikovsky (b.1960), Vivian Larsen ( b. 1962), Peter Larsen (b. 1966), Vibeke Nielsen (b. 1981), Stillborn (1933-1933), Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1935 - 2004), Princess Beatrix Alice Marie Melita Margarete of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1936 - 1997), Prince Georg Andreas Heinrich of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 1938), Prince Rupprecht Sigismund Philipp Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1944 - 1978), Prince Albrecht Wolfgang Christoph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1944 - 1992), Princess Margarita of Baden (1932 - 2013), Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (b. 1933), Prince Ludwig Wilhelm Georg Ernst Christoph of Baden (b. 1937), Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine (1931 - 1937), Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1933-1937), Princess Johanna of Hesse and by Rhine (1936 - 1939), Stillborn (1937-1937), Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (1933 - 2011), Princess Dorothea of Hesse (b. 1934), Prince Karl of Hesse (b. 1937), Prince Rainer Christoph Friedrich of Hesse (b. 1939), Princess Clarissa Alice of Hesse (b. 1944), Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover (b. 1947 - 1981), Prince Georg of Hanover (b. 1949), Princess Friederike of Hanover ((b. 1954), Prince Charles (b. 1948), Princess Anne (b. 1950), Prince Andrew (b. 1960) and Prince Edward (b. 1964).

4th cousin of Tatiana Sfiris (b. 1968), Princess Natasha Catherine Romanov (b. 1993), Thomas (b. 2004) Lucy (b. 2006) Isabella Florence (b. 2011), Tatiana Alexandra (b. 1986), Prince Rostislav Romanov (born 1985), Princess Cécile Marita Dorothea of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 1967), Philipp, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 1970), Princess Xenia Margarita Anne of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 8 July 1972), Prince Michael Galitzine (b. 1993), Princess Victoria Galitzine (b. 1984)., Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia (b. 1959), Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (b. 1958), Prince William (b. 1982), Prince Harry (b. 1984), Peter Phillips (b. 1977), Zara Tindall (b. 1981), Princess Beatrice (b.1988), Princess Eugenie (b. 1990), Lady Louise Windsor (b.2003) and James, Viscount Severn (b. 2007).

Fifth Cousin Victoria Marie Esmé Margarita de Silva (b. 1991), Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, b. 1993), Prince George of Cambridge (b. 2013), Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (b. 2015), Prince Louis of Cambridge (b. 2018 ), Archie Mountbatten-Windsor (b. 2019), Savannah Anne Kathleen Phillips (b. 2010), Isla Elizabeth Phillips (b. 2012), Mia Grace Tindall (b. 2014) and Lena Elizabeth Tindall (b. 2018).

6th Cousin Louis Ivan Welf Otto Hooper (b. 2007), Konstantin Georg Erik Falk (b. 2007), Leopold Welf Christian Falk, (b. 2009).